The Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 29 - I’ll see you again in 25 years
Welcome back to the Who Killed Laura Podcast with Scott and Chris. Happy New Year, and as the first bit of writing for 2017, it might be a good time to reflect on a 2016 filled with more loss than usual, at least for those of us who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, or who, you know, felt like half the country went insane, give or take a few million voters. And while this year will certainly bring its challenges, at least we came to the conclusion of a rewarding series of podcasts covering the original Twin Peaks series and, once we discuss Fire Walk With Me and some other Peaks goodness, will have the long-awaited new David Lynch-directed Showtime episodes to experience.
This episode, “Beyond Life and Death,” is directed by David Lynch, last seen for Episode 14′s “Lonely Souls,” and was written by co-creator Mark Frost along with Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, who had taken a larger role in season two when Frost was busy preparing is film, Storyville. However, as Lynch told them, he would be ignoring a lot of the script as he kept conceiving and filming scene after scene for the hallucinatory Black Lodge section of the episode. We’ll discuss more of the shifting roles and alliances when we get into the Lynch/Engels-written TP:FWWM.
Agent Cooper’s following Windom Earle into the Black Lodge to stop him and save Annie takes up much of the episode, but there’s also Dr. Heyward finally striking back at Ben Horne for his misguided honesty damaging the Heyward family, Nadine coming back from her high school fantasy romance with Mike to a devastating reality where her husband Ed has taken up with Norma, Leo Johnson left shackled and perhaps fatally boobytrapped, and Audrey Horne, Pete Martell and Andrew Packard all perhaps succumbing to a bomb left at the Twin Peaks Savings & Loan by Thomas Eckhardt as a final act of revenge.
At the time, this episode was looked at by some as a kind of thumbing of the nose at the ABC network, or even at the viewers who had misunderstood and abandoned the series, but as Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks reveals, the many dire cliffhangers in this episode were intended to convince the network to renew the series for one more season. The well-intentioned gambit didn’t pay off, and fans will have to wait a few more months to find out what happened to these characters, though some answers may be found (as well as a deeper mystery that may be explored in the series), such as the fates of Audrey Horne and Hank Jennings.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on the final epispode of the original run!
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